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Robert Tobin's study of Butler is masterly ... Tobin mixes familiarity with objectivity, scrupulous scholarship, and a gossip's curiosity.'How do such people, with brilliant members and dull ones, fare when they pass from being a dominant minority to being a powerless one?’ So asked the Kilkenny man‐of‐letters Hubert Butler (1900‐91) when considering the fate of Southern Protestants after Irish Independence. ...
This month’s lecture will be delivered by Padraig Yeates on the Dublin Lockout, the past year of commemoration and lessons drawn from the experience. On 26 August 1913 the trams stopped running in Dublin. Striking conductors and drivers, members of the Irish Transport Workers' Union, abandoned their vehicles. They had refused a demand from their employer, William Martin Murphy of ...
Dr Kennedy's recent book Ireland, the UN and the Congo takes a fresh look at Ireland's part in the UN’s disastrous mission in the Congo in the early 1960s. In summer 1961 Irish diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien was appointed UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's Special representative in the breakaway Congolese province of Katanga. In ONUC, its biggest peacekeeping mission to ...
Widely considered to be one of Ireland’s most important contemporary poets, Eavan Boland is currently a Professor of Humanities and Director of the Creative Writing Programme at Stanford University, where she has taught since 1996. In 2015 a New Collected Poems was published, and Eavan Boland: Inside History, a book celebrating her long and distinguished career, was recently published by Arlen House, its editor ...
In light of social and legal changes in Ireland over recent years the ILS is drawing together Irish writers to consider the representation of queer people in Irish literature. Our panel will be reflecting on London as a place of escape, queer representation in Irish writing, homosexuality in the discourse of what constitutes Irishness, and the integration of queer characters ...
The Irish Literary Society is delighted to invite its members to the Embassy of Ireland for an evening with one of Ireland's most fascinating poets. As there are only limited seats available for this event interested members should apply for tickets via the form below. Tara Bergin’s debut collection, This is Yarrow, won the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize and she ...
